Vonnegut, Vidal and Zinn on US Elections

Kurt Vonnegut in his "last speech for money":
“The only difference between Bush and Hitler, is that Hitler was elected... You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here." [Columbus, Ohio]

Howard Zinn, Dec 2004:
Yes, Bush was reelected President, and whether there was fraud in the voting process or not, John Kerry, quickly threw in the towel. The minnow called for reconciliation with the crocodile...

Consider this: Bush won 51 percent of a voting population that was just 60 percent of the eligible voters. That means Bush won the approval of 31 percent of the eligible voters. Kerry won 28 percent of the eligible voters.

The 40 percent who did not cast a ballot seemed to be saying there was no candidate they could approve of. I suspect that a large percentage of those who voted had the same feeling, but voted anyway. Is this a decisive victory? Has the will of the people been followed?

From a long interview, Gore Vidal on modern "Elections":

Ohio was stolen. The Republican Congress will never have a hearing on it. But I think attempts are being made to publish the details of what was done there, and elsewhere too in America.

In other words, I put the case that Bush was never elected--not in 2000, and not in 2004. This is a new game in the world. Through the magic of electronic voting, particularly through Mr. Diebold and friends, you can take a non-president and make him president. But how to keep the people, including the opposition who should know better, so silent, this introduces us to a vast landscape of corruption which I dare not enter.